My personal project Twittfilter is now in Alpha Twittfilter is actually an old project. I started it last Spring but only shared it with a few friends. The first feature of Twittfilter is the ability to send you an email if a term (typically your twitter name) is found in the public stream. Since you get an email you do not have to… Read More
Android on Netbooks. its coming.. and I, for one, welcome our new overlords. MATTHÄUS KRZYKOWSKI & DANIEL HARTMANN wrote an article for VentureBeat on how they were able to get Android working on the EEEPC 1000h. Link here.. Now for most of us mobile geeks, this is not shocking news… as a concept.. but given how quick they were able to do it, and also given how the… Read More
Top iPhone apps you should have for MacWorld First off, Happy New Year! We are approaching the final count down to MacWorld and aside from a few bookmarks (and macworld – thanks @danielbru for reminding me), there are a few apps you may want to make sure you have installed. I’m going to break the list in two; jailbreak and non jailbreak apps. … Read More
SimCity 1.3 for the iphone ipod update released You knew it was coming. They claim Increased stability. I’ll download and test. We’ll see if anything else is new. {UPDATE} OK, it does seem to work a bit better but when you start it, it recommends you do a reboot before starting the game. Thanks, already figured that. Still takes awhile to start and… Read More
LED Football2 is out. Fun if you are old enough to remember. :) I did a review of football when it first came out back in Sept. Story here. So I got another email last week saying LED football2 is out. Downloaded it, played with it, and just like the first one, its fun. Totally reminds me of when the original came out. Whats different here is the… Read More
Review of Towers: Much better game then I expected I played my fair share of desktop towers back in the day. It was pretty fun, but I mostly burned myself out after a few multi hour sessions. So when Towers first came out ( I guess a month?) ago, I did not bother with it. Well, last night I saw a free version and… Read More
Cheat codes for SimCity on the iphone ipod touch Because so many people have been asking, I’ll repost this. FYI: Simcity for iPad came out with cheats. I’m going to test the cheats this week. I went though 10+ known cheat codes for simcity3k and simcity4. None of them seemed to work. So as far as I know, only 2 cheats codes work.. i… Read More
How to reduce the crashes on SimCity for the iphone Ok, its been a week now and everyone has been dealing with the crashes. Seems to happen when switching between map and selecting something to build, either a structure or land zoning. Best fix.. and you will not like it.. reboot your phone. Yup, sorry, only good solution. What this does is make sure there… Read More
Why PdaNet is a Must Have for the iPhone PdaNet is not a new app, nor are apps for tethering new. I even wrote about and downloaded PdaNet back in Sept. Story here. I never did have a use for it, nor did I expect I ever would, till today. I took a 2 mile walk to starbucks (need the exercise) expecting to have… Read More
Family Treasure Hunt <update> Thanks for all the suggestions! The treasure hunt went quite well and it seems all the kids had a great time. We started out playing ‘Are you smarter then a 5th grader’. 3 Questions a round. If the adults won the round, chore chard is awarded to which they can do whatever the like… Read More
Battleship.. SteamPunk style. Review of ChartFightSP ChartFightSP is basically battleship, everything works the same way, except the graphics are classic steampunk. There is not much else to review really. The game play is fine, good sound… its BattleShip! What more do you want? Do not know what steampunk is? Check this.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk or this link.. CommunityFeeder .. and now the images..… Read More
Review of the Hockey news for the iPhone. I like. The hockey news is not revolutionary technically, it basically give you the news about hockey. Simple as that. The news feeds are broken into Blogs, Columns, and Features, which have rumor, fantasy pool, etc.. All good stuff. You can also get scores, no big surprise there. Standings. (Please note the leaders in the Pacific Division,… Read More
iPhone, GolfTraxx, GPS… FAIL So far, I have been pretty happy with each GPS app I’ve tried for various tasks; data logging when I bike or run, remembering where my car is, even logging my position when I twitter. So when a friend of mine called me up for a last second game of golf in the middle of… Read More
Video on unlocking the iphone 3G, done using Qik A few days back I posted about the unlocking coming at the end of the year. Well I just a got a tweet on this video from one of the Qik guys. Shows an unlocked iphone 3G running on t-mobile. Get some popcorn and enjoy.… Read More
Access iPhone as an external drive via wifi: Review of Discover This is sooooo sweet. Just came across it today. The program is called Discover. What it does is give you limited access to your iphone like a USB drive except this does it using WIFI! There are two other programs I have already that give you wifi access but whta discover does differnetly is it… Read More
SimCity for the iphone ipod is out… get it .. now Really, i’m not kidding here.. Get it now! Its $9.99. WAY worth it. Here, click on the following link.. Is it any good?? Yes!! Read this… Cheat codes?? Of course, thanks to “oab2” from my previous post.. i am weak = Construction costs set to $0 pay tribute to your king = All extra rewards… Read More
iphone 3G unlock (not just jailbreak) by New Years! We knew it was coming…. ok, so it took a bit longer then expected, but the l33ts have done it. Now all that is left is to wrap it up in a nice friendly GUI and let ‘er rip! … Oh, you DID take care NOT to use QuickPwn which everyone, including me, warned you… Read More
Review of RunKeeper as a running computer for the iPhone I downloaded this a while back, but since I do not run anymore, I have not had an opportunity to try it out. It’s a bit cold today for a ride but I still need some exercise, so I dusted off the old running shoes and went for a jog. Setting up runKeeper is pretty… Read More
How to make the perfect midnight grilled cheese sandwich So, your going to stay up late eh? Cannot sleep? Have too much or your mind? A geek? Well then. You need to make a midnight grilled cheese sandwich! Now this isnt your normal two slices of wunderbread and kraft american cheese, now, we are going to add a few things.. Ok, first, lets get… Read More
Home activation to return to the iPhone A week back I wrote a commentary on iphone’s going on sale in wal-mart’s (still officially rumor) and wrote the following: What if Apple supplied a specialist per store? Well, that could work, but is it worth it? Do you really think there are enough people who are looking to buy an iPhone to go… Read More